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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsDog Finds And Guards Family's Bread Whenever They Leave The House
"She thinks it's the most important thing to us because we use it so often 🤔🍞😂By Lily Feinn
Published On 03/04/2020
Some pups make excellent guard dogs but this 6-year-old dog named Jakey uses her skills to protect something a bit unusual.
While most dogs stand watch over the house, Jakey sets a more reasonable goal. She watches over her family's bread when they're away. She started this four years ago when we moved to our farm, Katrina Frank, Jakeys mom, told The Dodo. Every time we would leave she would hide the bread.
Jakey has an excellent nose for baked goods. The second her mom walks out the door, Jakey sniffs out the plastic-wrapped loaf, and she will stop at nothing until the bread is safe.
We have a bread box so she likes to hop up and pull it out of there, Frank said. If I leave it in the pantry instead, she nudges the door open and gets it out. I've put it in the refrigerator before and she has opened the door to get to it.
In all her years as a bread guardian, Jakey has never once taken a bite. And she makes sure none of the other animals in the house do, either.
She likes to put it behind the couch and lay by it. Otherwise, [she puts it in] the closet in my bedroom, Frank said. I assume she thinks it's the most important thing to us because we use it so often.
https://www.thedodo.com/videos/close-to-home/watch-dog-hides-the-bread
As soon as Jakeys mom returns, the pup leads her to the bread a guilty look on her face. Frank has gotten used to Jakeys quirks and knows now that the bread will never be missing for too long. I've always been like, Oh, that's Jake being Jake, Frank said.
If her family runs out of bread, Jakey doesnt let that stop her from doing her job: If I'm out of bread, she moves on to baked goods, Frank said. Once she took a Tupperware of cookies off the counter and hid all 17 individually without breaking any. She led me to all of them.
And if the family is out of any type of starch, Jakey moves on to guarding the butter.
The one thing Frank can be sure of: Their food is safe as long as Jakey is around.
https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/rottweiler-dog-guards-bread
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Dog Finds And Guards Family's Bread Whenever They Leave The House (Original Post)
catbyte
Mar 2020
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htuttle
(23,738 posts)1. That would have been one hell of a useful dog in 17th century France
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)2. She is a beautiful dog. My in laws had a Rottweiler just
like that for many years, he was a great dog.
Ahpook
(2,747 posts)3. Cool puppers :)
But, my spidey sense is ringing. Looks a bit staged
The viral animal stuff could bring out the dorks to stage things?
catbyte
(34,170 posts)4. I'd be surprised if it was. The Dodo doesn't traffic in shlocky, staged videos starring animals.
Every dog I have owned had has some sort of peculiar behavior
Don't we all ?
kacekwl
(6,993 posts)6. I had a husky mix
that did the same thing. Only she didn't lead us to it. We would find it in the couch days later.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)7. 17 Cookies! All hidden safely!!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)8. What a good, sweet little Rottie girl!
She is just the cutest!
trueblue2007
(17,138 posts)9. TOLD MY HUBBY about the Bread gauarding dog. Hre thinks the dog is SWEET